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Re:Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider by thedudemabry on Thursday June 23, 2016 @12:40PM (#11962370)
"More serious and expensive offerings apply machine learning to internal human resources (HR) records, and work to discover and infiltrate online crime rings."

Their first offering sounds pretty unlikely to yield results and the second seems ethically dubious to undertake for a single client.

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Re:Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider by Bartweiss on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:39AM (#11970082)
If they could turn basic HR records into a detailed threat assessment, they'd be selling that ML breakthrough to everyone in the world rather than pitching online scare stories.

I'm betting "apply machine learning to internal... records" looks more like listing the employees with disciplinary records and going "revoke network access from these people".

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